Should Texas drop the death penalty?

In 2010, Texas juries only sentenced eight convicted killers to death, the least amount since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its ban on the death penalty. A sentencing option of life without parole that became available in September 2005 is one reason, officials say. A growing awareness and concern about the risk of wrongful conviction is another. It is also cheaper to house convicted killers for life rather than pay for years of appeals and their incarceration.

Should Texas drop the death penalty?

Yes. We can save time, money and lives of the wrongly convicted.

No. We need to have the ultimate deterrent for the most heinous of crimes.